The authorities of Saint Petersburg have prepared a draft law under which housing payments for large families will be calculated using reduction coefficients, and the resettlement of communal apartments will be removed from the priorities of budget policy. For families with five or more children, the rules will not change, while for parents of four and three children, payments will be reduced to 80% and 70% of the cost of housing, respectively.

#DenisUdod #communalapartments #largefamilies #StPetersburg #svo #Smolnyi

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The network of discussion projects «Political Space» announced the closure of venues in six Russian cities — Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Novosibirsk, and Omsk. The decision was made after, on October 23, the Russian Ministry of Justice added the Novosibirsk branch of the project to the register of «foreign agents».

#Yekaterinburg #Kazan #Moscow #Novosibirsk #ProstranstvoPolitika #StPetersburg

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Petersburg’s Petrodvortsovy District Court sentenced 66-year-old local historian and former municipal deputy Vladimir Zhuravlev to three years in prison. He was found guilty of spreading «fakes» about the Russian army for posts on social media.

#Bucha #Incontactwith #VladimirZhuravlev #PetrodvoretsDistrictCourt #Rzhevmeatgrinder #StPetersburg

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Novorossiysk has ceased to be used for imports: there are no container carriers left on the sea route to the port, and delivery of imported cargo by this route has been completely blocked, sources in several major logistics companies said. The last Chinese companies operating on this route switched to St. Petersburg in October, said Alexey Gagarinov, CEO of Sea-Shipping.

#Vladivostok #GKDelo #Novorossiysk #Poti #StPetersburg #BlackSea

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The Petrogradsky District Court of St. Petersburg turned into state revenue the assets of the former head of the Internal Security Department of the St. Petersburg Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Alexey Vasilyev, and his relatives, worth hundreds of millions of rubles. Among the seized items are real estate, cars, and 171.52 million rubles, the city’s joint press service of the courts reports.

#AlexeyVasilev #bribe #Konfiskaciaimushestva #MinistryofInternalAffairsofRussia #PetrogradskysudSanktPeterburga #StPetersburg

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State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Anzhelika Glazkova, introduced a bill on the status of Hero Cities, under which Saint Petersburg should become Leningrad, and Volgograd — Stalingrad. The document proposes to закрепить these names permanently and prohibit their renaming again.

#TheGreatPatrioticWar #VladimirPutin #Volgograd #TheStateDuma #CommunistParty #StPetersburg

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Ukraine launched 145 drones at St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, Governor Alexander Drozdenko said. One person was killed in St. Petersburg, five more were injured, and ten people were wounded in the region.

#AlexandrDrozdenko #VladimirZelensky #DonaldTrump #Leningradregion #StPetersburg #Ukrainskiebespilotniki

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On Sunday night, St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region came under the largest drone attack since the start of the war, authorities said. According to their data, 145 drones were shot down, one person was killed, and about 20,000 residents were left without electricity.

#AlexanderBeglov #AlexandrDrozdenko #drones #Leningradregion #Pulkovo #StPetersburg

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The Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg sent a 16-year-old teenager to pretrial detention in a case on aiding terrorism. According to investigators, Vladimir believed he was corresponding with representatives of the Russian Volunteer Corps, but in fact his interlocutors were officers of Russia’s FSB.

#Russkydobrovolcheskykorpus #StPetersburg #pretrialdetentioncenter #terrorism #FSB

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In St. Petersburg, monkeypox was laboratory-confirmed in four residents, and all of them were hospitalized in a city hospital. Their condition is assessed as moderately severe.

#Domodedovskajabolnica #Moscowregion #monkeypox #Ramenskajabolnica #Rospotrebnadzor #StPetersburg

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At night in Moscow and St. Petersburg, airport operations were restricted. In the capital, nearly 160 flights were delayed or canceled, and at Pulkovo — 46.

#Vnukovo #Domodedovo #Moscow #Pulkovo #StPetersburg #Sheremetyevo

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The St. Petersburg administration has banned foreign citizens with a work patent from working in healthcare, hairdressing services, cosmetology, retail trade, and the field of physical culture and wellness. The restriction will remain in effect until the end of this year.

#TheStateDuma #eez #KrokusSitiHoll #migracionnajapolitika #StPetersburg #Smolnyi

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The 1st Western District Military Court in St. Petersburg sentenced television producer Kapitolina Averina to 6.5 years in a general-regime penal colony in the case of calls for terrorism. According to the case file, she was charged with three counts.

#WarinUkraine #Kommentarii #repressions #Russiancourts #Russia #StPetersburg #FSB

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Novy Urengoy and Salekhard topped the seventh annual ranking of the 100 largest cities in Russia by the purchasing power of salaries, compiled by RIA Novosti. Grozny and Nalchik were at the bottom of the list.

#Moscow #NovyiUrengoi #RIANews #Salekhard #StPetersburg

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The Wall Street Journal writes that NATO has prepared a response plan to a possible Russian attack, providing for strikes on targets near St. Petersburg, in the Kaliningrad region, and in Belarus. The concept was outlined at the security forum in Warsaw by the Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, Alexus Grynkewich.

#Belarus #Warsaw #KaliningradOblast #NATO #Russia #StPetersburg

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The group Shortparis released the album «Iliad», which features the voice of frontman Nikolai Komyagin, who died on February 20, 2026, at the age of 39 from cardiac arrest. The record is already available on Spotify, Apple Music, and major Russian and international music platforms.

#Attaquedepanique #shortparis #Iliad #CaroArt #NikolaiKomjagin #StPetersburg

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According to Agency, Vladimir Putin’s plane, after returning from Turkmenistan, may have been directed to land in St. Petersburg, and then it took off for Moscow almost immediately. This happened amid attacks by Ukrainian drones and balloons, which led to the «Carpet» plan being introduced at Moscow and Moscow-area airports and more than 300 flights being delayed or canceled.

#VladimirPutin #Moscow #Pulkovo #CISsummit #StPetersburg #Turkmenistan

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«Kommersant», citing two sources, wrote that American rapper Kanye West received about $20 million for concerts in Saint Petersburg, which were later canceled. On October 4, it became known that ticket buyers had begun receiving refunds, and the St. Petersburg police began a preliminary investigation into the organizer on suspicion of fraud.

#SayAgency #GazpromArena #KaneUest #music #entertainment #Russia #StPetersburg

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A court in Saint Petersburg sentenced the creator of the animated series «Masyanya», Oleg Kuvaev, in absentia to 4 years and 1 month in prison. He was found guilty on charges of calls for activity against the security of the state and violating the rules governing the activities of a «foreign agent», the press service of the St. Petersburg courts said.

#Israel #Masyanya #MinjustRossii #OlegKuvaev #Roskomnadzor #StPetersburg

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Bailiffs imposed an arrest within 115.5 thousand rubles on the funds of Say Agency, which organized the announced Kanye West concerts in Russia. The basis for the proceedings was a writ of execution from the Oktyabrsky District Court of Samara in a civil lawsuit for consumer rights protection.

#SayAgency #GazpromArena #KaneUest #Russiancourts #Samara #StPetersburg

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